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ROCKFISH

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected form: rockfishes   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone

Synonyms:

Roccus saxatilis; rockfish; striped bass; striper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("rockfish" is a kind of...):

sea bass (any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin)

Holonyms ("rockfish" is a member of...):

genus Roccus; Roccus (a genus of Serranidae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("rockfish" is a kind of...):

scorpaenid; scorpaenid fish (any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific)

Meronyms (parts of "rockfish"):

rockfish (the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rockfish"):

copper rockfish; Sebastodes caurinus (a rockfish of the Pacific coastal waters of North America)

rasher; Sebastodes miniatus; vermillion rockfish (a commercially important fish of the Pacific coast of North America)

red rockfish; Sebastodes ruberrimus (a large fish of the Pacific coast of North America)

ocean perch; rosefish; Sebastodes marinus (large fish of northern Atlantic coasts of America and Europe)

Holonyms ("rockfish" is a member of...):

genus Sebastodes; Sebastodes (rockfishes)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("rockfish" is a kind of...):

saltwater fish (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rockfish"):

ocean perch; redfish; rosefish (North Atlantic rockfish)

Holonyms ("rockfish" is a part of...):

rockfish (marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America)

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